[1]NNU - Medicare for All!

We’re writing to you today with a quick assignment. 

It won’t take more than a few minutes, and it could have a BIG impact on
helping us reach our goal of 100 signers on the Patients Over Profits
Pledge. 

Step 1: Look up the names of your local city and state level elected
officials. This could include your city council member, mayor, state house
and senate members, and more. 

Step 2: Use your best Google skills to find an email address for each of
them, a contact form, or if all else fails — send them a direct message on
Facebook or Twitter. 

Step 3: Send them this email below asking them to sign the Patients Over
Profits pledge. Make sure to edit the email to insert your information and
their name.

Dear [Elected Official],

I am writing to urge you to sign the [ [link removed] ]Patients Over Profits pledge, as
introduced by National Nurses United and other health care advocacy
organizations. This pledge states that a candidate or elected official
will not take contributions over $200 from executives, lobbyists, and PACs
affiliated with the hospital, insurance, and pharma corporations and
instead pledge to put the health, well-being, and safety of their
constituents over corporate health industry profits.

We have a dysfunctional, wasteful, and cruel health care system. We spend
more per capita on health care than any other nation with universal health
care, and we often have only worse health outcomes as a result. 29 million
people in this country are without health insurance. At least 47 million
more are underinsured — they have insurance that they can’t afford to use
due to astronomical co-pays, deductibles, and premiums. 

I strongly oppose the overwhelming influence of insurance and
pharmaceutical industry corporate PACs, executives, and lobbyists on our
political system, and I hope that all politicians, yourself included, will
commit to standing with patients and communities, not corporate health
care profiteers. 

Please take the Patients Over Profits pledge by visiting:
[ [link removed] ][link removed]?.

Thank you for your time, and please feel free to contact me if you would
like to discuss this issue further.

Sincerely,

Your Name
Your Address
Your City, State, Zip
Your Phone Number

Step 4: You’re all done! If you want extra credit, you can go back and
repeat the process with another elected official!

We know this plan works. When city and state
officials hear directly from their constituents, it matters! 

So far we have 86 elected officials and candidates signed on to the pledge
to reject money from the corporate health care industry. Just this week,
we celebrated two new signers from Florida: 

* Richie Floyd, Member of the St. Petersburg City Council in Florida,
representing District 8
* Anna Eskamani, Member of the Florida House of Representatives from the
47th district in Orange County

Gaining signers like these from the South, where so many large for-profit
health care corporations are headquartered, sends a powerful message. But
we still have a bit more to go to reach our 100-signer goal by May 1, so
please help us reach this goal by sending an email to your state and local
elected officials today. 

Every new pledge signer is one less opportunity for the corporate health
care industry to corrupt our politics and buy-off votes. 

With determination, 

Nurses’ Campaign to Win Medicare for All

 



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